1906*

The sons of 1906 are showing up their fathers in many ways. The most recent indication is in the elections to the Green Key society. Three out of the six sons of 1906—Robin M. Hartmann, Roy R. Merchant Jr., and Don G. Rainie—were among the forty sophomores elected to that organization. Who knows but what their fathers also would have been elected to Green Key had it been in existence. One thing is certain—Max, Roy, and Herb would have surely made Phi Beta Kappa had it not been for their studies.

Shorty Davis, Francis Child, and Gott Brooks and their respective wives took Mediterranean cruises this past summer. While Gott and Marguerite Brooks were seated in the lounge of the Hotel Flora in Rome, dreaming of how European nations would stick more closely together if they used his LePage's Glue, in walked Francis and Leila Childs. The typically vociferous Dartmouth greeting which they joyfully extended to each other must have disturbed the serenity of the Eternal City.

Not long ago Ned Redman gave your president a very pleasant evening by having a small '06 dinner party for him in one of the beautiful rooms of the new Dartmouth Club in New York. Bob Adriance, Tommy Gordon, Mike Edgerton, Ned Redman, and Ned Bullard (Medical School '06) were present, and we had a most delightful evening. Phi Beta Kappa keys—some large enough to make attractive automobile radiator emblemsadorned the expansive chests of almost everyone present. These prized honor keys were as plentiful as they are in the wellknown hock shops in Harvard Square, where impoverished New Dealers are wont to make loans on their last prized possessions, while awaiting the millennium.

One of our good friends visited Harrisburg, Pa., the other day and reported that Bill Page was playing baseball on one of the local teams. Doesn't this old plug know that at his age he is supposed to be developing spavins and ringbones instead of cavorting around the diamond like a young colt? Bill's idea of entertainment at the next reunion is to get together our old 1906 players with Dave Main back of the plate, Ralph Glaze in the box, backed up by Bug Gardiner, Bill Page, Kid Gleason, Mike O'Brien, Tom Cady, and others for the purpose of playing the varsity. What business the Mary Hitchcock Hospital would do after the first inning! It would be almost a repetition of Custer's Last Stand.

We have just returned from a trip west, where we had many delightful visits with members of our class. At Denver Dave Main, who is one of that progressive city's outstanding leaders, greeted us with a great deal of enthusiasm. Dave is just as modest and unassuming as he was when he, with those two other forlorn western youths—Tubby Blatherwick and Ralph Glaze—landed in Hanover many years ago. Dave has reached the top in Denver, and he deserves every bit of the success and popularity he has attained.

in Los Angeles we found Dr. George P. Laton, who always has been affectionately known to us as "Tubby," once more building up his medical practice, which he had to relinquish during his long illness. Tubby looks very well and hopes to make a trip East before long.

At Seattle we had a delightful reunion with Mr. an»d Mrs. Harry Higman, Mr. and Mrs. Bug Gardiner, and their children. Bug, of course, has a splendid reputation out there as an outstanding engineer, while Harry Higman has built a very favorable place for himself in the community. Harry is quite a naturalist, and he spent a good deal of one evening explaining why the Cypripedium Acaule had a single large, fragrant flower dropping from the end of a scape and why the purple, solitary blossoms of the Mimulus Ringens, whose solitary, purple blossoms are borne on slender footstems from the axils of the upper leaves, are seldom found in the high altitudes.

Plans are already being made for the annual class dinner to be held the night before the Dartmouth-Harvard game in Boston. This annual party is really a reunion, and those who miss it deny themselves a lot of pleasure.

Again the class suffers a severe loss in the passing of Tommy Thompson and Tom Barker, both of whom were loyal Dartmouth men to the end.

AT THE DARTMOUTH CHATEAU IN CHICAGO IN 1911 This Sunday afternoon domestic scene includes several of the residents of the old chateauwhose fondest memories go back to the years when this was the Dartmouth headquartersin Chicago. Back row, standing: John Field '10, Mike Stearns 'OB, Pat Hathaway '07, BillMcGrail 'O6, Bill Knight '08, Chandler 'OB of Bowdoin. Seated: Uncle Jim Keegan, JimFassett 'O7, Guy Abbott 'O2, Jesse Hawley 'op. On the floor: George Liscomb 'O7, IraKnight 'II. Front row: Buster Brown '09, Russ Palmer '10, Pen Pendleton '11, DickSouthgate 'O7. A reunion of alumni and former guests of the Chateau will be held inroom 528, University Club, Boston, October 21 (day before the Harvard game) from5 to 7 P.M.

President, Room 1430, Merchandise Mart Chicago, 111.

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